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Warning: this is going to get a little personal. For the first time in four years, I’ve decorated almost every room in the house for Christmas. I have a ‘real’ tree, decorative pillows, a poinsettia and my advent calendar. To...

This past September, the Tampa Bay Healthcare Collaborative administered the annual membership satisfaction survey for the third year in a row. As a member driven organization, it is vitally important to hear directly from our members. We...

On Friday, December 1st the Tampa Bay Healthcare Collaborative (TBHC) was one of 13 local nonprofits to ‘pitch’ their social enterprise idea on stage in a room of nearly 400 people at the University of Tampa, Plant Hall. The...

Over the past several months, I’ve had an opportunity to learn about framing – a set of concepts and theoretical perspectives on how individuals, groups, and societies, organize, perceive, and communicate about reality. The way I...

The TBHC Advocacy Committee sponsored a solutions focused summit about the opioid epidemic in Pinellas County on October 31, 2017, hosted by Suncoast Hospice. The panel of community based experts provided attendees with educational information...

It is widely believed and often quoted that the Chinese character for the word crisis is composed of the characters for the words ‘danger’ and ‘opportunity’. While this is not actually the case, it does provide a motivational way of viewing a...

Confession: I can’t do everything! For years I’ve said we as nonprofits have to stop saying we can do more with less. We can do less with less. But, admitting this obvious fact seems wrong and counter-intuitive. It makes us feel as...

The Tampa Bay Healthcare Collaborative (TBHC), with support from the Foundation for a Healthy St. Petersburg, hosted its first ever Healthcare Action Summit on May 19. The one day event brought national, state and local experts together to...

The Tampa Bay Healthcare Collaborative (TBHC) met with oral health stakeholders from across the country April 10-12 in Chicago to discuss opportunities to engage with their constituents to protect access to healthcare coverage and services...

As I was working on this month’s blog post I asked the team for suggestions on topics. We tossed a few around and settled on something that seemed appealing. But, when I sat down to start writing the ideas just simply wouldn’t flow...

On March 6 Republicans released the first official plan for repealing and replacing some provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), called the American Health Care Act. The bill contains many proposals that have long been discussed within the...

I believe in divine timing. I believe somethings are “supposed to happen” and somethings are “meant to be”. I also believe sometimes things happen when you least expect it. I recently had a ‘right where I was...